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requires hot dry weather. Much better as a 
standard, from which a fine maiden bloom may 
sometimes be cut, but it is difficult to grow well, 
and requires very good treatment. The blooms 
almost always come well, though they are often 
undersized; and the shape is unique and very 
good, with a fine point in the centre, and the petals 
arranged in imbricated form, but standing well 
apart from one another. This is the true form, 
but large flowers sometimes do not show it. No 
dressing for exhibition is required for this Rose, 
which naturally shows itself to the best possible 
effect. Very free-flowering: it must be well thinned 
for the production of exhibition blooms, but even 
the small flowers are lovely and of good lasting 
quality. A fine colour sometimes, but this is not 
often very lasting. Mrs. Pierpoint Morgan is an 
American sport of this variety, of a deeper colour, 
but it has not been found satisfactory: and Mrs. 
Oliver Ames (May, 1902) is a paler sport of very 
little service. 
Madame de Watteville (Guillot, 1883).—A notable 
and most distinct Rose, in habit and flower. The 
growth as a dwarf is frequently poor, and it is 
decidedly best as a standard. It is somewhat 
capricious, and some good growers have but little 
success with it; indeed, for the first few years of 
its existence it was, I think, only shown in its full 
beauty by one Rosarian, but several of the leading 
exhibitors are able to grow wonderful blooms of it 
now. They come well, even though the buds be 
crinkled and apparently badly shaped, and it is 
quite a type of the ‘‘long-winged”’ Roses, the great 
petals standing out well, and giving it a most 
